Dear friend,

We received your telegram from Bern. We send greetings! It's wonderful that you managed to survive. We await letters from you. For now we are living in Zurich. Our address: Ulianov, c/o Kammerer, Shoe Shop, Spiegelgasse 12, Zurich I.

We plan to stay here about a month. You know what is happening with us from the last letter to Nik. Iv.—about the conference, etc. In England there are terrible atrocities. Papa was forced to leave London; in France opposition is growing; the same is being written about Germany by Parvus in his *Glocke*...

Moreover, you will learn all this from the Stockholmers...

Regarding the Petersburg (insurance) elections, we know only what was in the legal newspapers. Generally we are eager to learn everything in detail about Russia—don't stint, write. Write about the collegium—is it still there, who comprises it, how it is working, etc.

Well, once more very big regards,
N. Krupskaya

¹ N. K. Krupskaya—outstanding figure of the Communist Party and Soviet state; wife and comrade of V. I. Lenin.

After the II Congress of the RSDLP—secretary of the editorial board of Bolshevik newspapers *Vperyod* and *Proletariy*. Working abroad, she conducted extensive correspondence with party organizations in Russia. During the imperialist world war, she took an active part in the activities of the foreign Bolshevik sections, was secretary of their Committee (KZO).

The beginning of the published document was written beneath the text of N. K. Krupskaya's letter (see below).

² The journal "*Kommunist*" was organized by V. I. Lenin and published by the editorial board of the newspaper "*Sotsial-Demokrat*" jointly with G. L. Pyatakov and E. B. Bosh, who financed its publication. The journal's editorial board also included N. I. Bukharin. K. Radek was drawn into active participation in "*Kommunist*" from among Polish left social-democrats. Only one (double) issue of the journal appeared in September 1915.

Even during the preparation of issues 1-2 of the journal "*Kommunist*," disagreements emerged between the editorial board of "*Sotsial-Demokrat*" and Bukharin, Pyatakov, and Bosh, which intensified after the appearance of this issue of the journal. At the same time, Radek also took a sharp turn to the right and embarked on intrigues against the Bolsheviks. Considering it necessary to cease publication of the journal, V. I. Lenin in April 1916 wrote a "Draft Resolution of the CC RSDLP on Cessation of Publication of the Journal '*Kommunist*'" (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Coll. Works, vol. 27, pp. 279-281). The publication of "*Kommunist*" was ceased.

³ We are speaking of No. 25 of "*Gazeta Robotnicza*" ("No. 2"—a slip of the pen), which appeared in January 1916. It printed the "Resolutions of the meeting of the editorial collegium, held June 1-2, 1915," in which there appeared vacillations and a conciliatory line by K. B. Radek and his supporters regarding the Mensheviks. V. I. Lenin's critique of these resolutions is given in the "Letter of the Committee of Foreign Organizations to the Sections of the RSDLP" (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Coll. Works, vol. 27, pp. 275-278).

"*Gazeta Robotnicza*" ("Workers' Newspaper")—illegal organ of the Warsaw Committee of the Social-Democracy of Poland and Lithuania; published in May-October 1906, 14 issues appeared, publication was ceased.

After the 1912 split in Polish social-democracy, two Warsaw committees arose and two organs were published under the name "*Gazeta Robotnicza*": one by supporters of the Central Bureau in Warsaw (July 1911-July 1913), the other by the opposition Warsaw committee in Krakow (July 1911-February 1916).

N. I.—Bukharin. A member of the Bolshevik party from 1906. In 1911 he emigrated abroad. In 1915 he contributed to the journal "*Kommunist*," stood on non-Marxist positions on questions of the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the right of nations to self-determination, etc.

⁴ We are speaking of the voting of Polish social-democrats (opposition) at the Brussels "unification" conference of July 16-18, 1914 for a resolution proposed in the name of the International Socialist Bureau by K. Kautsky. The resolution asserted that there were no fundamental disagreements in Russian social-democracy preventing unity.

⁵ From the summer of 1916, the editorial board of the newspaper "*Sotsial-Demokrat*" began preparing a collection. "Collection of *Sotsial-Demokrat*"" was published under the direct supervision of V. I. Lenin. Only two issues appeared: No. 1—in October and No. 2—in December 1916. Material was prepared for the third issue of the collection, but in the absence of means, its publication was not realized.

⁶ Yuri—G. L. Pyatakov—member of the Bolshevik party from 1910. From 1914 to 1917 a political emigrant. In 1915-1917 he spoke against V. I. Lenin on the question of the right of nations to self-determination.

E. B. Bosh—member of the party from 1901. During the imperialist world war, she shared the anti-Leninist views of Bukharin and Pyatakov on the national question.